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Mogwai  The Bad Fire

‘The Bad Fire’ might not cure your January blues entirely but it’ll at least provide a glimmer of hope to get you through the bleakest of months. All in all, an utterly enthralling 11th studio effort from these avant rock stalwart Clash

Rose Gray  Louder, Please

The up-and-coming British artist shines on her vibrant, hedonistic debut album musicOMH

FKA Twigs  Eusexua

Twigs’ third album brings club music into her sensual, supernatural world. It’s a masterful pop-star moment for the artist Pitchfork

Mogwai  The Bad Fire

On their 11th album, the long-running post-rockers open up disarming, uplifting new dimensions to their sound without veering too far from familiar paths Pitchfork

Saint Etienne  The Night

Saint Etienne’s The Night has quite a bit going for it, but it sounds uncharacteristically forced, ultimately collapsing under the weight of its pretension PopMatters

Mogwai  The Bad Fire

There’s some sense of reconciliation going on between their earthier 90s sound and the synthy, spacey and sometimes poppier material that’s inhabited their last few records The Quietus

The Weather Station  Humanhood

Whatever the influences at play, Humanhood works gloriously as a song cycle The Quietus

FKA Twigs  Eusexua

EUSEXUA is FKA twigs bizarre world-building masterclass The Line Of Best Fit

jasmine.4.t  You Are The Morning

Even though the songs are painfully personal, they offer a wider hope. The world feels dark right now, but albums like this give promise that the dawn is coming The Line Of Best Fit

FKA Twigs  Eusexua

The experimental U.K. dance-pop artist wanted to “transcend human form” with her new album. She nails it Rolling Stone

Mogwai  The Bad Fire

This record boasts real emotional nuance among the unbridled passion. And to retain the power to surprise and delight when entering its fourth decade is something few bands can claim Under The Radar

Anna B Savage  You And I Are Earth

Over gorgeous musical arrangements that feature contemporary Irish musicians and gentle guitar work reminiscent of Nick Drake, Savage creates an intimate, enchanted world, where footsteps are muffled by moss and magic — even the mundane sort — waits behind every tree Under The Radar

FKA Twigs  Eusexua

Eusexua doesn't just embrace the thrust of commercial dance, it subsumes it into the chromatic, honed prism of FKA twigs' artistry The Skinny

FKA Twigs  Eusexua

This is an album that seeks an otherworldly state of purity and perfection The Arts Desk

Mogwai  The Bad Fire

Mogwai may not be writing Happy Songs for Happy People, but in so thoroughly assimilating so many musical approaches, they’ve found a way to make massive, deranged lullabies that urge you to stay awake, ready to handle whatever life throws at you Spectrum Culture